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- Maaku3
Took Thursday and Friday off to go NY.
Leaving tomorrow and coming back on Sunday.
It's the first time I go as a tourist, not for work or studying. Should be fun :P- Bring a jacket, looks like it might get cool this weekend!...robotron3k
- ^ for real? I want to wear shorts :(
Guess I'll bring something long sleeve, just in case. Thanks!Maaku - jk, gonna be hot af! Maybe some rain...robotron3k
- Disgusting hot. Stay indoors until evening hot.monospaced
- Oh wait that was today. This weekend should be nice. Have fun. Don’t stand in lines like that kind of tourist. :)monospaced
- detritus6
Did something I've always wanted to on the way in - threw rubbish back in the window of a car it'd just been thrown out of, then was all like
when the meat head got out of his head to challenge me.Thankfully I was already a few steps out when he got out of his car. He was a big motherfucker and I am but a timid ginger pussy.
- ? Got out of his car, even.detritus
- "Excuse me sir, you seemed to have dropped something"shapesalad
- I like the supporting illonotype
- The sad thing is, I did actually do that when he eyed me. I've become a bit Lundun over the past few years... .detritus
- hahaha! https://www.youtube.…mugwart
- haha, nooo! i didn't run away, although would definitely have if he'd come at me. There was just enough distance for him to be the asshole to make that move :)detritus
- Ginger pussy is the most adventurous ; - Psee_thru
- notype —I *think* that image was made by someone who used to be here - vorm/ 4cy/ janne. Certainly, that's the impression I'm under whenever I see it on the netdetritus
- (I mean, I think it's Hopper > Banksy > Janne)detritus
- @notype
https://www.qbn.com/…dmay - Ah, thanks dmay - I wasn't sure whether the holes in my memory had been filled in by fantasy and lies! I'm surprised at how often I see it on teh internetsdetritus
- https://www.ayemonth… love that it's still upinteliboy
- lajj0
Going to San Francisco at the end of the month, man this city is expensive!
So we are going to stay in Oakland, any does and don't in Oakland? My only reference are some Worldstar video of people fighting in parking lots.
- i_monk0
Bit too much sun at the beach today...
- Go get a jerrb!!pango
- yeah ya beach bum!notype
- Been trying for 18 months...i_monk
- i_monk, you're in CA? What are you looking for exactly?notype
- Toronto.pango
- Tx pango.
monk, I know one group in tech in Toronto- can connect you. Lmk what ur seeking.notype - I'll email you.i_monk
- Nothing yet but looking fwd to it!notype
- Check your faxi_monk
- Squiddy2
at an intersection near my house there is an electronic billboard that rotates through upcoming events. saw "new order" and annoyed the cars behind cuz i needed to reconfirm cuz I was thinking it was a metal band or something. nope. got home to confirm...New Order playing in Honolulu! Weird but pretty excited
- pango2
I just realized my thought voice is always shouting quietly...
- shapesalad0
Do you love the city/place that you live in?
For those of you in London, do you once a week/month or so find yourself thinking "I love London"?
- Nope, the opposite - I have to constantly refrain from reminding my partner that the only reason I'm in this shitting city is because she changed her mind.detritus
- ..I used to though.
First 10-15 years were great, but I'm old now and I'd prefer to live away and then perhaps visit for a weekend once a year.detritus - Yes.thumb_screws
- Yes to the first question. And a past tense half yes for the second questionthumb_screws
- I do, small city, close enough to Lisbon, 10 minutes from the beach, 5 min drive to work, mild weather...dmay
- Yes. Very much so.monospaced
- I live in Brighton, UK, and I absolutely love it, and most people that live here do to. It's a very happy, creative, open minded, community focused small cityset
- We have the beach one side and the south downs the other, and london is an hour away on the train. As far as the UK goes, it's perfect.set
- I'm getting a queasy stomach just thinking about my impending plan to move back to London...shapesalad
- myeh, you'll be fine - if it's entirely novel, then it's good, if you've been away for a while, it's probably ok.detritus
- @dmay It sounds like my idea of utopia.shapesalad
- Also Brighton. Also love it. I swim in the sea on my lunch breaks. Back in a bit.MrBixler
- Only been to Brighton once... my gf at time was shouted at by a drunk and it just seemed meh.shapesalad
- Most people come to brighton and head straight for the beach and the pier and a few roads close by, and I can fully understand why that experience would be mehset
- It's mostly full of drunk cunts a tourists down that way. Fuck down that way.set
- loved London, now its just Pret-HQ. Everything that was cool and unique has almost gone - minus a few pockets. The air is killing me and I have to wall aroundmugwart
- with a air mask on & get horrific looks.
But I cant imagine myself in countryside. Bore the shit out of me but I want to grow my own food...I'm confused!mugwart - live in hackney and yeah, still love it
although have no idea about the city south of the riverBluejam - The cool stuff's there, mugwart - it's just moved outward. Fuckloads of kultcha up here in Haringey, etc. I'm just old and don't much value it any more...detritus
- South is brilliant Bluejam - I'm in Brockley, amazing place.mugwart
- Your right @det - its just become an even more cooperate evil beast. Seeing communities and hubs dry up.mugwart
- I love Toronto.i_monk
- Rarely leave Hackney, it's one of the few places in London that I still like. I really don't like West End which I avoid as much as possible..dee-dubs
- I really like living in Madrid, good weather, food, still fairly cheap and you can walk everywhere. Still not perfect but pretty close.Chimp
- I hate it....I wish I was back home in London.see_thru
- big city life is tough. no doubt about it. is there anyone here living in a big city and loving it? anyone that isn't in the 1 percentage?docpoz
- It's more like love and hatepango
- Yes. Live about 30 mins drive outside city. Or a nice 1 hour by bike. Rivers and mountains on my doorstep. Privacy, clean air, space. Having a joint in....pedromendez
- ...total silence looking at the stars at night is really great too.pedromendez
- central london in the summer, crammed with tourists and stinky taxis. sadly it's becoming a doughnut city - all the interesting stuff happens zones 2-3hans_glib
- yep, love belfast. lived in london for 4 years, gives me the heebie jeebies when I go there now. sister lives in brighton and it's great. any excuse to go therekingsteven
- and sheffield, glasgow.kingsteven
- In Japan now (Tokyo area). Vastly different from nyc where I lived since 2000. Getting used to it, but finding work is challenging if you don’t speak Japanese.antimotion
- I really dig. Just different ways of going about. just try to make the best of it and connect with folks You can relate to. Stay strong and true to yourself.antimotion
- autoflavour-2
guttered.
we left Germany 18 months ago. we told everyone we needed to and deregistered.
except we kept getting payments for the kids. we emailed, called and wrote letters telling them we had left and were told by another department its normal for us to keep getting money.
every month, 360euro into our account.
now, 18 months later they are like, oh, actually you owe us 6500 euro now.
worst part.. we just got a huge tax refund from Australia .. so in the space of 3 days had $10k come into the account and then go straight back out.. without us doing anything wrong.
so wrong.
- did you spend the money you knew wasn't yours or just stash it for when they asked for it back?hans_glib
- we were told by at least 3 different departments that because our kids were German and my wife is German, they are entitled to that moneyautoflavour
- If you have that in writing then you shouldn’t have to give it back.monospaced
- problem is that the actual department we needed to speak with is a 1800 number available only within Germany, and all our emails and snail went unanswered ..autoflavour
- the first 3000 I brought back with me last year and the other we had planned on using to cover the 3 week holiday we are currently on. so instead of havingautoflavour
- left over after the holiday, we are now in the hole... if it wasn't for the unexpected tax refunds, we would have be fucked. but still its $10000 goneautoflavour
- the ineptitude of German bureaucracy never fails to amaze me.. how can a system continue to pay so muchautoflavour
- detritus1
@autoflavour
If my dealings with a couple of German companies are anything to go by, I'm unsurprised. My idealised impression of 'German efficiency' has been much-eroded these past few years, having dealt with organisations whose varying departments appear entirely unable to communicate with one another, or even take repeated instructions via phonecalls and emails.
As hans asks, I'm hoping you didn't spend the cash — I'm hoping you stuck it in a seperate account and used the interest (such as it'd be) and as unused collateral. By the sounds of it though, you've spent it, haven't you? Silly!
Well, the Good Lord Giveth and the Good Lord Taketh away...
- Apparently Germans are actually human.
Whodathunkit?detritus - If you're back in Oz though - wtf can they do?detritus
- we spent it as we were told by a number of different officials that we were legitimately allowed to have it. but they informed us wrong.autoflavour
- didn't spend all of it, but read above.. we had already spent it in theoryautoflavour
- Apparently Germans are actually human.
- OBBTKN1
Going again to Andalucia for a week, now to an area with domestic tourists, not like in Malaga...
Sun, pescaito frito, fino, gambas and 7 days doing NOTHING
- A donde?detritus
- Christ, my Spanish is bad these days. I get so mixed up between it and Italian, neither of which I do very well :\
Or English, for that matter...detritus - Near Punta Umbria, Huelva...OBBTKN
- blame your girlfriend, bad girlOBBTKN
- I hope my old FIAT does not explode on the tripOBBTKN
- huh, nice - I've only ever passed through Huelva on the way to Portugal. Enjoy the chiringuitos!detritus
- sarahfailin0
What's up with girls and the dandelion seeds blowing away in the wind imagery? I've seen several such tattoos and Facebook cover images recently.
I would file it under the same category as "dance like nobody's watching"
- helloeatbreathedrive3
Logged in (Android) but can't seem to get the Threads appear at the bottom, using Chrome mobile, checked also on Samsung browser, any updates fam?
- dmay2
Who broke the threads list?
- feww, thought it was client sideplash
- weird, if I use the history back / forward, the list shows...dmay
- fuckin' asarahfailin
- aaah, I thought it was just me.detritus
- end timesimbecile
- Yup it’s fuckedHijoDMaite
- It's back up now, thanks fellas!helloeatbreathedrive
- up again at 4am, qbn jingle, but not worky.
closing my eyes for 4 mins, no qbn jingle but worky. whatta?sted - 4am? Where you at, Sted?detritus
- upside downsted
- Oh! Permanently?detritus
- just a few things back in budapest, but yeah i'm staying :)sted
- Huh, cool! I missed that, if you mentioned it here - have you properly emigrated? If so, may I ask how old you are.. roughly? I still fantaise about Oz.detritus
- ...assuming I'm not entirely misinterpreting your response, of course!detritus
- I'm at the age limit for the right points to get into the country without a diploma speaking 3 languages lol :D u can math that out knowing the migration policysted
- detritus5
AAAAAUGHHH.
I've not drank alcohol in a week and by God, that first quenching sip of ice cold Scrumpy on an overly-sunny Friday ... Goodness. Pure, unadulterated Goodness. I've not smoked any cheechee for the last week either.
I think I might try and stick to this habit - almost akin to how normal people function.
It's been literally decades since I've had even this meagre amount of time away from illicits and fuckme if I can't feel cobwebs cleared away, a new level of clarity.
- Funny, it took me a good hour or so of mental back'n'forthing to go for it. A big chunk of me was hesitant to reëngage.detritus
- I did this recently too and felt the same.monospaced
- thought this project was interesting https://www.oneyearn… good on you det!notype
- detritus3
Also, I had a new client in earlier - young girl, very nice, very talented - and as I went over her files on my computer she espied in my notes a client who she recognised, and was seemingly impressed by, and then when I opened her file, she noticed alongside her name in my 'new clients' folder someone else who she was even more impressed by.
these aren't brands or big names, but good people doing cool shit, who i'm lucky enough to help out in some small way.
I've had a bit of a shit year over all, so this was a nice wee pick-me-up.
Shapesalad asked the other day if we loved our city, and I said I absolutely didn't. Well, shit - times like this, I do actually like LDN, because I'd be hard-pressed to work with some of the people I do anywhere else - Any.Where. NYC, Paris, Beijing or Tokyo, Anywhere.
I guess I'm going to have to learn to appreciate what I've got.. holding on for dear life onto the coat tails of younger, better, nicer people than me :)
- PonyBoy1
Omg drnku
- docpoz4
I finally saw Blue Velvet. What a masterpiece.
- imbecile1
couldn't find a "the little things" thread but..
found the girlfriend a license plate to express her love of elephants that matches her jeep pretty well (thanks alabama) and i've just found her a key fob garage remote that also matches the paint / interior. these details coordinating for her bring a grin to my face.
- As long as the plate didn't read "Dumbo" you're golden.ArmandoEstrada
- docpoz2
Watching Citizen Kane. It remains timeless and beautifully shot.
- His final film will be coming out this year, 50 years in the making, "The Other Side of the Wind" cant wait!robotron3k
- It's the story of an aging Hollywood director looking for funding for his last film.robotron3k
- ^ +1OBBTKN